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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-18 (Thursday) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 23:23:45 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 181 Message-ID: References: <1145499069.735231138.694186.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <284127956.735425216.113250.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <1584834823.735435434.850962.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <3ddb2jh6fcnkv5imn6dqe1b9pt8sssq4ec@4ax.com> <407348378.735447041.947241.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 05:23:48 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c54b7fcf8d9008f4172f574fd803d028"; logging-data="798159"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Eiiqq4pYyUI4zG3kzxKcakMIs+ER+BWQ=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q1y6x6AJ9/UZ27ejp+dod5H3cWE= Bytes: 9095 On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:09:56 -0700, anim8rfsk wrote: >shawn wrote: >> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:56:09 -0700, anim8rfsk >> wrote: >> >>> anim8rfsk wrote: >>>> Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >>>>> On 4/19/2024 7:59 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>>> shawn wrote: >>>>>>> On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:38:44 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> What did you watch? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I watched another animated flick JUSTICE LEAGUE vs THE FATAL FIVE >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In this movie we have a trio of bad guys from the future travel into >>>>>>> the past to free two of their group that are trapped in a prison in >>>>>>> the time of the Justice League. A hero from the future also manages to >>>>>>> travel into the past to stop them but he has a fatal weakness. He >>>>>>> needs regular doses of a drug or else he tends to forget who he is. A >>>>>>> drug that doesn't exist in the JL time. So he forgets most of his >>>>>>> mission other than that there is a Fatal Five and that he needs to >>>>>>> find the Limelight before getting locked away in a mental institution. >>> >>> Is it new that he’s insane? For that matter is it new that Jessica Cruz is >>> insane? >>> >> >> I don't know. Not familiar with either of those characters. Perhaps >> they were introduced to the comics after I quit reading them. Much > >Star Boy has been around since 1961. :-) Originally he had all of Superboy >powers plus the ability to increase the mass of objects to get around the >duplicate powers rule. Somewhere along the line, he lost the Superboy >powers wiki says he’s gone through several incarnations and costume changes >and race swaps. Apparently he’s been insane since the 2006 version which is >well after I stopped reading the Legion. Hmm, don't recall ever having heard of him. If he was just in Legion books then that might explain it. I was never a huge comic book fan as I just didn't have the money to buy more than a rare comic book when I was young enough to really want to read them. Then as I got older I was more into reading science fiction books. So the only comics I've read in decades were those that JMS joined in on. >Jessica Cruz has only been around for 10 years, long after I stopped >reading the Legion. I was puzzled as to why I knew who she was until I >finally recalled that someone I know cosplay as her Good reason to remember the character. >Wikipedia says that this was a fairly faithful version, except that it was >darkseid that Smashed her ring and killed her and the ring brought her back >more powerful than before So if the ring can do that why didn't it do it for anyone else? > >> like with Hal Jordan turning truly evil in that other animated flick. >> That was never my Hal Jordan. > >I actually remember that from the comics, but yeah, that was not my Hal >Jordan either So they actually did that in the comics? Nothing like destroying a beloved character. Guess that was a new writer pissing on the ground to mark his new territory. > >> >>>>>>> The story then proceeds from there as the trio of bad guys proceed to >>>>>>> do bad things. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'll leave the rest of the story for your enjoyment when watching the >>>>>>> flick as it's a good story. There are some bits that didn't make sense >>>>>>> within the story like an axe that can cut Superman but doesn't cut >>>>>>> Wonder Woman's sword but it was still an enjoyable watch. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Wonder Woman's sword is magic and blessed by Hephaestus. I guess >>>>>> Hephaestus is tougher than the Persuader. Nominally the atomic ax can cut >>>>>> through anything. >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> As far as I'm concerned, *nothing* cuts or breaks that lasso. Period! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> I would watch this but once again nothing is free on Apple TV. $3.99 to >>>> rent, $12.99 to buy. >>>> >>> >>> The gray web to the rescue! Thank you, Al Gore. >>> >>> This was OK. It wasn’t as good as the newer stuff that I’ve praised that >>> looks to be 3-D for 2-D. But it balances that out by having the older voice >>> cast. >>> >>> I’m completely confused by the continuity. The justice league that had >>> Supergirl certainly knew about the Legion. But these guys don’t. >>> >>> I take it we actually see the end of the green lantern corp in this movie. >> >> We don't know why it ends but they clearly aren't around in this >> future. >> >>> I don’t know who the Legion we see at the end of the movie is, but it’s >>> certainly not the Legion we saw the beginning. Jessica Cruz thanks for them >>> for coming to the funeral because the dead guy thought so highly of them. >>> But in fact, the dead guy never would’ve met these people. >> >> What do you mean? Those are among the people that he worked with. > >That’s a completely different Saturn girl/Saturn Queen at the end than it >was in the beginning. I wouldn’t even have known who it was if she didn’t >have the Saturn logo on her chest. > > >> Hell, one of them even asked him at the beginning of the movie if he >> had taken his shot and warning him that "You know what happens if you >> don't take your shot." So of course they knew him. > >Yeah, that was the beginning Saturn girl, who was like the comics. > >> >>> I liked Mano (the hands of fate) accidentally burning off the Empress’ >>> face. Wikipedia says Jessica killed them all? I guess I blinked. Certainly >>> Saturn girl should be pissed at her. >> >> Given that they aren't normal humans who knows if they were actually >> killed or not. Not sure how dangerous the Empress would be without her >> EYE. > >That was another stupid part of her plan. > > >> >>> Actually, the Empress plan has another fatal flaw. Almost all those other >>> worlds were settled by travelers from earth. Destroying the solar system in >>> the 21st-century is going to un-create everybody on her team. >> >> Yeah, I don't know what the rules are in that universe for time >> travel, but normally what you say is how time travel would work. >> >>> There’s no way Batman should have been able to go mano on mano on Mano. >>> >>> So the ax can slice a ring in half! And Jessica uses Hal’s oath, and >>> somehow saying it without a power battery or a main power battery or a >>> ring, or any green energy at all manages to reform the ring and power >>> herself? I don’t think so. >> >> Yeah, they were going with her being somehow more powerful than anyone >> else in the GL, perhaps because she conquered her fears. Sort of like >> Batman dealing with his fears of bats by becoming the Night. Notice >> how when she powers up she gets that aiming reticule around her eye. I >> had thought she was going to somehow get this magical power up by >> gathering up the remnants of power on Oa or Mogo, but nope. She just >> becomes ultra powerful because she becomes ultra powerful. >> > >Wiki sorry I’ve explains this. They took a storyline with different people >and powers and grafted it onto this movie. Which is probably why it didn’t >make any sense. > > >>> Thanks for the recommend! >> >> You are welcome. >> At least tonight's resurrection made more sense. Just finished rewatching JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK APOKOLIPS WAR where two people get resurrected but at least there is a reason why it happened that fits in with what we've seen before.